SeaMonkey on LN3? No .deb--I'm a little nervous

[ryancw]

I'm another Libranet Forum alumnus who found his way here. Not being a programmer by any stretch of the imagination, I gained much more than I gave on the LN forum. But I'm very glad to see that the forum is continuing here. Everyone has always been very helpful.

My question is about SeaMonkey--the new incarnation of Mozilla Suite. I'm running pretty much a stock LN3, with a few applications downloaded and installed via apt-get (from where, I don't know . . . I couldn't even tell you where my sources point to any more . . .did any of that change with the end of Libranet?)

Anyway, I have Mozilla Suite 1.7.8 that came on the LN3 installation disks. I've been looking at SeaMonkey--it has some features I would like, and it seems it has more of a future than Mozilla Suite. But there is no deb package to install SeaMonkey. Having not installed much, if at all, without a deb, I'm a little nervous. Has anyone installed SeaMonkey on their LN3, via the installer available on the SeaMonkey website? Is it likely to mess up anything with my system, like my currently working Mozilla 1.7? Where does the installer put my SeaMonkey profile? Does it produce a multi-user installation? And how about advice on uninstalling, if it causes problems?

I was hoping someone here had some experience with it--no bites yet on my identical posting to Mozillazine forum.

Thanks.

[kmoffat]

I would download the tar.gz file, open a terminal and untar it in my home directory, change to the created directory and run the executable. I'm doing it now on ln3 to see what the results are. will report shortly.



edit: okay, this did work. I untarred (tar zxvf sea*) in my home directory, cd'ed to seamonkey* and ran 'seamonkey', and up came Navigator. This is a safe way to try out a program without installing it. It should use existing config files. It's not multiuser as installed, but could be placed in something like /usr/local/ or /opt or somewhere and anyone could run it.

This install has navigator, mail, composer, chat and address book icons at the bottom.

[ryancw]

Thanks for the report. Sorry to make you do my dirty work for me.

Can you tell where your SeaMonkey "profile" is, where all your mail and settings will be stored?

edit: okay, this did work. I untarred (tar zxvf sea*) in my home directory, cd'ed to seamonkey* and ran 'seamonkey', and up came Navigator. This is a safe way to try out a program without installing it. It should use existing config files. It's not multiuser as installed, but could be placed in something like /usr/local/ or /opt or somewhere and anyone could run it.

This install has navigator, mail, composer, chat and address book icons at the bottom.

[kmoffat]

Looks like mail is in a "mail" folder in ~. Look around the defaults and chrome folders for bookmarks. Not sure what else...

edit: this could be wrong. I'm unsure.

[ryancw]

Did you have any version of Mozilla Suite on your machine before you installed SeaMonkey? Firefox? Thunderbird?

When you first ran the SM executable for the first time, did it ask you which profile you wanted to use? Or did it invite you to create a new one?

Thanks.

[kmoffat]

I have both mozilla and firefox, and when I ran it it did not ask to choose a profile, and created new mail accounts, not using any pre-existing settings.

EDIT: seamonkey seems to run well, quickly, looks just like mozilla, of course. I guess I'll try it, but do like firefox/t-bird.

[ryancw]

OK, thank. I think I'll give it a whirl.